Joshua Trevino's Malay payday

3/1/13 1:22 PM EST

A recent filing to the Dept. of Justice by conservative pundit Josh Trevino — who lost his column in The Guardian in August last year for his alleged ties to the government of Malaysia — reveals that several publications carried pieces by opinion writers who were paid by the Malaysian government.

Buzzfeed reported on Friday the Foreign Agent Registration Act filing shows that conservative writers whose work appeared in The Huffington Post, Washington Times, National Review and RedState, among others, were part of a paid propaganda campaign by the government of Malaysia. Trevino — who before he parted ways with Guardian told POLITICO in 2011 that he was “never on any ‘Malaysian entity’s payroll” — received $389,724.70 from the “government of Malaysia, its ruling party, or interests closely aligned with either” from May 2008-April 2011, according to the document.

The filing also lists 10 others who were provided with stipends for their writing, including Ben Domenech, the Transom blogger and former Washington Post writer, who received $36,000.